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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdenonbeta/kio-rio
From:       Charles <charles () altair ! dhs ! org>
Date:       2000-10-11 10:16:55
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 October 2000 11:03, CVS by charles wrote :
> >TAB if ((somelongbooleanstatement) &&
> >TAB     (someotherlongboolean statement))
> >I'm impressed, now no matter what tab width I use, those parentheses line
> >up JUST the way I want them to!
>
> Yeah, and what about all the code that looks like
>
> TAB    blah();
> TABTABblah2();
>
> The one who wrote it has TAB = 4 chars, so it looks ok to him,
> but when I open it with vi (TAB = 8 chars), it looks like crap.
>
> You're going to tell me you don't do that, but many people do and that's
> the problem with tabs. They always end up mixed with spaces, and the result
> is always a mess.

Which kind of wacko indents the same _line_ with both spaces and tabs, with 
the exception of the trolls, who seem to have agreed on the standard (a very 
rediculous one :)

Even I resort to the evil of spaces if that file is using it.  Every time I 
commit something of my own to the cvs (tabs of course), and people hack it, 
it ends up looking like the above mainly because of a lack of consideration, 
and how insane some of these text editors can be.

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